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My brother actually laughed at dinner and said, ‘I sold that useless laptop of yours for five hundred bucks. Finally got rid of your junk.’ My cousins cheered him on. Then he added, almost proudly, ‘Already handed it off to the buyer.’ I got up, stepped outside, and called my supervisor. By the time I made the report, the FBI cyber team was already tracking the device…

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Rachel handed me a thick folder of bank statements.

“I needed to show somebody who understands numbers without turning it into theater,” she said.

Derek’s finances were worse than I expected. Credit cards. Business loans. Late fees stacked on late fees. A financing agreement on inventory that seemed to exist only in fantasy. Luxury dinners. A high-end continue reading …

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